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Drink You Off My Mind
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A Lion Ain't Done
Built From The Bottom
Last Call at Midnight
More Than One Road
Never Stop
One More Hill
When Luck Turns
Whiskey Knows Your Name
Your Number's Still in My Phone
Full songs stream on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube. Written and performed by Richard Dall.
Dark country music
Country written in the minor key — guilt, orders, whiskey and the hours after midnight. Southern gothic rather than heartbreak, and sung low.
- A Lion Ain't Done
The centre of the dark side of the catalogue. Dark country and southern rock.Lyrics Listen → - I Did What I Was Ordered
The hardest one to listen to, and the reason this page exists.Listen → - Outlaw's Lullaby
A lullaby that is not comforting.Listen → - Whiskey Knows Your Name
Denial, with a witness.Lyrics Listen → - Last Call at Midnight
The bar after everyone sensible has gone home.Listen → - Whiskey Until Morning
Grief that outlasts the night.Listen → - Stones Inside My Chest
Weight that does not move.Listen →
What separates dark country from sad country
Sad country is about loss — something was taken. Dark country is about complicity — something was done, often by the narrator, and he is still carrying it. That is why the two do not sit on the same playlist: one wants sympathy, the other does not ask for any.
The heartbreak side is on sad country songs. All lyrics → · All songs →